Haskell Weekly News: November 15, 2005
Greetings, and thanks for reading the 15th issue of HWN, a weekly
newsletter for the Haskell community. Each Tuesday, new editions will be
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New Releases
* York Haskell Compiler. Thomas Davie [3]announced the York Haskell
Compiler project, which already has working code. Quite a few people
chimed in with questions.
3. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12485
Discussion
Making Haskell more open. Simon Peyton-Jones began a [4]long thread with
some ideas about making Haskell more open to the wider community. The
thread is too long to completely summarize here, and branched out in
several directions, including a [5]discussion of the haskell.org homepage.
4. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12479
5. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12533
Haskell users survey. John Hughes [6]wrote about a web-based survey about
Haskell. He is encouraging everyone with an interest in Haskell to
participate.
6. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/12448
Darcs Corner
Darcs 1.0.4 was [7]released this week. There are quite a few performance
improvements, a new posthook option, manifest feature, new "darcs put"
command, more git support, and various bugfixes.
7. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/8706
Quote of the Week
"Impossible things are delayed immediately. Miracles may take a little
longer." -- Claus Reinke on haskell-cafe.
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